Staff Writer
BROWNSVILLE, TX - Today's run-off election looms as another of those cruel jokes locals forever endure, this one lapped on the community by a few dozen women who roust the vote in the name of Democracy while pocketing a little cash. Politiqueras, a busy-skirt army of physically-eccentric women said to deliver an oft-questioned vote, will likely decide today's contest between Ruben Pena and Ernie Hernandez in the battle for Cameron County Precinct 2 commissioner.
It is this town's day for "Going All-Mexico" - characterized here as a day when politics takes on a distinctly Mexican flavor. As described in newspapering and border lore, it will be one van moving up and down some the city's poorest streets after another, where politiqueras will entice the dispossessed to join them in a ride to weird Democracy. We pick you up and bring you back home, goes the line. From the harshest critics comes word that some of these voters even get a little cash for their troubles.
It is an accepted practice here, with women working the service as if on an Avon neighborhood run and pols full-knowing they need the politiqueras if they wish to win election. With voter participation lower during run-offs, hired vote-getters play a larger role in the decision.
For Cameron County, the resignation comes with noisy Mexican music, fajita burn-outs and the false impression that the community is voting. The ruse seems to be okay with most residents, the larger portion of them ignoring the contest. It would be easy to say the candidates are less-than-desirable. They are, yet the ballots will be availed and the votes will be counted.
For the winner, it'll be a clear-cut victory no matter the numbers.
Once more, Cameron County will fool itself...
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8 comments:
so true. Nothing will ever change. good observation. I'l say it cause no one elsewill. It always angers me.
Identity Crisis, I see ... ~Claire
No, it's not an identity crisis. We know who and what we are. This "Tour of The World" flirtation with our name is our way of amusing those who want someone - anyone! - to sue us. Such seriousness from wildly-silly Bloggers kills us. If only they had half the scruples we have... - Editor
Don Patricio, I know mr. 'DP-M' is a wealthy, wordly man, but why the Havana Tribune??? Why not just the Tribune?? correct me if I am wrong, Tribune, is synonomous with your mission statement. Well according to my old Webster.
Don Pancho
Don Pancho, please read the reply we posted to Claire's comment above yours. We will eventually become simply The Tribune, yes... - Editor
Politiqueras won races again, I swear those women have no shame. They actually believe these clowns running for offices.
The cities and counties need new faces, new energy, new ideas, we keep getting used tired out individuals.
Both Ernie and Ruben look tired sickly, like John Woods.
People from Cameron county, please WAKE UP.
Don pancho
Don Pancho, you're singing a song everybody in the RGV knows by heart. And, of course, the politicians play it all year long... - Editor
I agree with the previous writer, Cameron county deserves, pot hole streets, colonias, lack of infrastructure, that is what happens when people don't go out to vote. What do we get?? The same old worthless crap.(I wanted to be profane but I couldn't) Pena and Hernandez,a pair of thiefs.
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